Apple Music: Should Apple have bought Pandora instead of Beats?

13 August 2015

Steve Guttenberg writes: Apple Music has so far scored 11 million free subscribers, so they probably won't reach their rumored goal of 100 million subscribers anytime soon. Even with the company's considerable marketing muscle and free trial subscriptions, 11 mil seems pretty paltry. It's starting to look like Apple bought the wrong company -- Beats -- it should have bought Pandora. It'd be a whole lot closer to its goal.